Ditto.
Palmer keeps making me reach.
Transfering a post to here [part of which involves the NSA hack]
Palmer:
Everybody has access to the same encryption algorithms. If we did not, then we would have security by obscurity which always fails eventually. What China could conceivably do is crack our encryption keys using quantum computing. AFAIK that hasn’t been done yet, but I’m sure they and the NSA are working on it. Also, as you mentioned, they could protect their own comms using quantum encoding of some sort. I don’t know that works at line speeds yet. It works in the lab but AFAIK only at low speeds.
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